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RENEWABLE ENERGY

RENEWABLE ENERGY RENEWABLE ENERGY has potential to serve the major proportion of Pakistan’s energy mix if handled properly Renewable Energy Policy, Current Energy Generation Statistics and Upcoming Plans June, 2016 Renewable energy has become the center of focus especially after Paris agreement (COP21) where world leaders agreed to cut down their fossil fuel consumptions in order to keep earth temperature below 2 degree Celsius. Hydel, solar, wind and biogas/biomass are the major constitute of renewable energy and Pakistan is blessed with abundance of renewable energy potential. Since last decade Pakistan had been unfortunately stuck in massive energy crisis and as the population grows, demand increases and energy crises become worse. Furthermore there will be 50% increase in primary energy demand between 2014 till 2030, said by Minister of state for Petroleum and Natural Resource. For years, the matter of balancing Pakistan’s supply against demand has remained unresolved and cur...

Dams and Our Economy

The actual prices of huge dams were ninety six over the estimate, on average, and implementation took a quarter mile longer than scheduled. The new report therefore expressly states that enormous dams aren't economical: "We realize that even before accounting for negative impacts on human society and setting, the particular construction prices of huge dam’s square measure too high to yield a positive come." The study is predicated on the foremost comprehensive economic analysis of huge dams ever undertaken. "Large dams" refers to dams with a wall height in far more than 15m. Since 1934, no improvement in economic assessments The study that is predicated on a stratified sample of 245 giant hydropower dams’ inbuilt sixty five totally different countries between 1934 and 2007 concludes that value and time overruns haven't improved over time. "Dam budgets these days square measure as wrong as at any time throughout the seventy years that infor...